Hello! ----- Original Message ----- > From: [email protected] > To: "Maxim Cournoyer" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, February 2, 2018 5:19:41 AM > Subject: Re: Ring packages for Fedora (was: [Ring] Are the Arch linux > packages gone?)
> He Maxim, > > thanks for your reply and taking time! > > Related to RPM fusion: > For me there seems to be the problem, that people already have to know about > Ring. > There is no chance to stumble and discover it through the categories of the > AppCenter while searching for Apps they really need. Yes, we also would prefer to be available 'out of the box' on Fedora, so we are interested in evaluating all options. > Related to the patents: > 1. Why does Ring have to use FFMPEG at all? It's currently used for processing (decoding/encoding) video and audio streams. It's a required dependency of Ring. > 2. Could https://pipewire.org/#about be an alternative? >From a quick glance at the project, it seems PipeWire is about providing a >similar set of features as PulseAudio but for videos. It is not dealing with >the encoding/decoding of the streams directly itself but can be used with >GStreamer, which can do that with its various plugins. It might be possible to use GStreamer and a select choices of free and patent unencumbered codecs, but I'd expect this to be a big effort (to adapt Ring for it). It'd be useful to make a detailed analysis of GStreamer to see how it fares against FFmpeg. Happy Friday! Maxim
